Weather Alert in Colorado
Flash Flood Warning issued August 28 at 3:31PM MDT until August 28 at 4:45PM MDT by NWS Grand Junction CO
AREAS AFFECTED: Rio Blanco, CO
DESCRIPTION: At 331 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms produced heavy rain over the Lee Fire Burn Scar. Between 0.4 and 0.7 inches of rain have fallen. Flash flooding is already occurring. Excessive rainfall over the burn scar will result in debris flow. Even though heavy rain has ended, debris flow and mudslides were reported over County Road 5 near mile marker 30 to the west of the Lee Fire burn scar. The debris flow can consist of rock, mud, vegetation and other loose materials. HAZARD...Life threatening flash flooding. Thunderstorms producing flash flooding in and around the Lee Fire Burn Scar. SOURCE...Radar. IMPACT...Life threatening flash flooding of areas in and around the Lee Fire Burn Scar and along County Road 5 near mile marker 30 on the west side of the Lee Fire Burn Scar. Some locations that will experience flash flooding include... mainly rural areas of Central Rio Blanco County This includes the following streams and drainages... Piceance Creek, Dry Fork Piceance Creek and Yellow Creek.
INSTRUCTION: This is a life threatening situation. Heavy rainfall will cause extensive and severe flash flooding of creeks...streams...and ditches in the Lee Fire Burn Scar. Severe debris flows can also be anticipated across roads. Roads and driveways may be washed away in places. If you encounter flood waters...climb to safety. Move away from recently burned areas. Life-threatening flooding of creeks, roads and normally dry arroyos is likely. The heavy rains will likely trigger rockslides, mudslides and debris flows in steep terrain, especially in and around these areas.
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Sleet is a form of precipitation in which small ice pellets are the primary
components. These ice pellets are smaller and more translucent than hailstones,
and harder than graupel. Sleet is caused by specific atmospheric conditions and
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The condition which leads to sleet formation requires a warmer body of air to be
wedged in between two sub-freezing bodies of air. When snow falls through a warmer
layer of air it melts, and as it falls through the next sub-freezing body of air
it freezes again, forming ice pellets known as sleet. In some cases, water
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